Wow – this was probably our biggest update ever! Version 2.0 of IdentityServer4 is not only incorporating all the feedback we got over the last year, it also includes the necessary updates for ASP.NET Core 2 – and also has a couple of brand new features. See the release notes for a complete list as well as links to issues and PRs. 

On 16th November 2016, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family at Connect(); 2016 event. I thought let's give it a try so I installed the same and went through the project templates available in it. This blog is kind of a getting started guide to install Visual Studio For Mac. 

It's always the same: After npm installing a new library, we have to follow a readme step by step to include it into our application. Usually this involves creating configuration objects, referencing css files, and importing Angular Modules. As such tasks aren't fun at all it would be nice to automate this.  

ng add

MVC 6 should be out any day, so we need to be prepared.

The good thing is, it’s all very similar to MVC 5; the even better thing is, it got better! A couple of ways it is so cool, in my mind, are:

Now, it seems like the rumor is going to be real. Yesterday there was a Windows 11 Build leaked online from a Chinese portal, and we got to know more about that build. Here's a quick look at Windows 11 that is expected to be released later this year. 

And there you have it – an ASP.NET web app built on Windows, running seamlessly on a Mac off of a USB folder. How mind-blowing is that

Anatomy of the .NET dictionary

The internals of the .NET Dictionary class is a very common interview topic, so the information in this post might come in handy one day. Alternatively, use this new-found knowledge to impress friends and colleagues at every opportunity!

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated from a template.
//
//     Manual changes to this file may cause unexpected behavior in your application.
//     Manual changes to this file will be overwritten if the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace EFDbFirstDependencyInjection.DataLayer
{
    using System;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
    
    public partial class TestDbIdentityEntities : DbContext
    {
        public TestDbIdentityEntities()
            : base("name=TestDbIdentityEntities")
        {
        }
    
        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            throw new UnintentionalCodeFirstException();
        }
    
        public virtual DbSet<Category> Categories { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Product> Products { get; set; }
    }
}

This is the eighth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! 

In this part, we provide a list of VPS providers that you can use it to buy a vps.

We do not include cheap VPS with less than 0.5GB RAM and less than 12 months in this list. The price in this list is the average of 12 month. In addition, we don't include a VPS provider here, if the price is higher than well known providers such as Hetzner, Ovh, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure.